Life Through the Microscope

Photo Winners from Nikons Small World Contest

This 1st place image is The blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo shot by Dr. Jennifer L. Peters and Dr. Michael R. Taylor from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tenn. This winning image of the blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo perfectly demonstrates the intersection of art and science that drives the Nikon Small World Competition.

Photo Winners from Nikons Small World Contest

This 1st place image is The blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo shot by Dr. Jennifer L. Peters and Dr. Michael R. Taylor from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tenn. This winning image of the blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo perfectly demonstrates the intersection of art and science that drives the Nikon Small World Competition.

Photo Winners from Nikons Small World Contest

This 5th place image by Honorio Cócera-La Parra from the Museum of Geology, Department of Geology at the University of Valencia in Valencia, Spain, shows Cacoxenite (mineral) from La Paloma Mine, in Spain, shot with transmitted light.

Photo Winners from Nikons Small World Contest

This 11th place image by Jessica Von Stetina, from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts shows a Single optical section through the tip of the gut of a Drosophila melanogaster larva expressing a reporter for Notch signaling pathway activity (green), and stained with cytoskeletal (red) and nuclear (blue) markers.

Photo Winners from Nikons Small World Contest

This 12th place image by Esra Guc from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in
Lausanne, Switzerland shows a 3D lymphangiogenesis assay. Cells sprout from dextran beads embedded in fibrin gel seen with Fluorescence and Confocal.

Photo Winners from Nikons Small World Contest

This 13th place winner by Dr. Diana Lipscomb, from the Department of Biological Sciences
at George Washington University in Washington DC, shows a Sonderia sp. (a ciliate that preys upon various algae, diatoms, and cyanobacteria) seen with nomarski interference contrast.

Photo Winners from Nikons Small World Contest

15th Place winner shows a section of a coccinella leg (ladybug) and was shot by Andrea Genre from the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology at University of Turin in Italy. <a href="http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/" target="external">Click Here to see more Images from Nikon's Small World</a>